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Description: | Creamware black transfer-printed jug. On one side a sailor's farewell scene. He is wearing wide petticoat breeches (slop hose) and brandishing a cudgel. His ship is in the background, a cherub on the maintop, his girl weeps into a handkerchief. Inscribed below 'POOR JACK/I said to our Poll, for you see she would cry,/When last we weigh'd Anchor for Sea/What argufies sniveling and piping your Eye/Why what a damn'd Fool you must be,/Cant you see the World's wide and there's room for us all/Both for seamen and Lubber's ashore./And if to old Davy I should go Friend Poll,/Why you never will hear of me more,/ What then all's a hazard, come, don't be so soft,/Perhaps I may laughing come back,/For d'ye See there's a Cherub sits smiling aloft/To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.'
This is the third verse of 'Poor Jack' 1788 by Charles Dibden (1745-1814). On the other side of the jug, a scene of five sailors carousing on shore, seated round a table drinking from a punch bowl.
caption: Jug | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Nelson's Navy Nelson Naval life and practice jugs | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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